Answers: TNA media rights, Kyle Fletcher, Algorithms, Harley Cameron!

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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any idea who TNA is talking to for media rights based off Albas report of them having up to five different networks/streamers interested?

I've never heard of specific media companies or networks or channels they're speaking to. I just hear internally every few months that they're "being shopped around." I'll ask for some more detail.

You often note on video streams that the YouTube algorithm “doesn’t favor you.” What do you mean by that? What do you guys do that makes you unfavorable to YouTube?

When we first started on Youtube, we had no idea what we were doing. We'd put any and all content we could on there -- Wrestling, boxing, MMA, interviews, shows, clips, audio of calls. Our graphics and thumbnails weren't good. That really hurt us and it's tough to recover from that in general.

As time has went on, we've refined it, but still it's an uphill battle. We do at least 8 live streams a week, which is more than a lot of huge accounts produce in a couple of weeks. We still post our videos and interviews, so there's usually a dozen uploads on our main channel a week. Had we known to do a separate channel for interviews years ago, that would have helped big time. Youtube also favors "videos" over live streams in recommended options. We have launched a clips channel, Fightful Scraps, that helps out -- and Fightful Overbooked.

We also aren't as good playing the thumbnail and the bait title game, which is a big part of things. We need to encourage comments in the comment section more as well.

Multistreaming to other platforms also pushes us down a bit as well, but our Twitter video audience is very big and important to what we do.

Update on Harley Cameron's injury?

It's a legitimate injury, but she sustained it before the AEW Dynamite show. She wanted to work it into a storyline to explain her absence from the ring, and AEW was happy to make that work. The parallels to Chelsea Green are really incredible there..

Is there any heat on Kyle Fletcher for that powerbomb spot with Cole on Dynamite?

There was some heat on it as reckless spot, but nobody was calling for his head or his job or anything like that. Kyle Fletcher is well liked and I'm told he felt very bad about it. It's pro wrestling and there's always a risk there.